Article 34-4When a Customer Other Than a Professional Investor Is an Individual and That Individual Is Deemed to Be a Professional Investor

①For each contract type, an individual set forth in the following (excluding qualified institutional investors) may request a financial instruments business operator, etc. to treat that individual as a professional investor with regard to financial instruments transaction contracts that are of the same contract type:

②If a financial instruments business operator, etc. receives a request under the preceding paragraph, it must deliver a document stating the particulars set forth in paragraph (2), items (iv), (a) and (b) of the preceding Article to the individual that submitted the request (hereinafter referred to as an "applicant" in this Article), and must confirm that the applicant falls under any of the persons set forth in the items of the preceding paragraph.

③The provisions of Article 34-2, paragraph (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the delivery of a document under the preceding paragraph.

④An applicant may request a financial instruments business operator, etc. to treat it as a customer other than a professional investor again with regard to financial instruments transaction contracts that are of the same contract type as the one to which the request under paragraph (1) pertains, at any time on or after the day on which the financial instruments business operator, etc. gives the approval under paragraph (2) of the preceding Article as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to paragraph (6).

⑤After receiving a request under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, a financial instruments business operator, etc. must approve that request by the time it solicits the conclusion of the first financial instruments transaction contract thereafter that is of the contract type to which the request pertains, or by the time it concludes the first such contract thereafter.

⑥The provisions of paragraphs (2) through (8) of the preceding Article apply mutatis mutandis if a financial instruments business operator, etc. approves a request under paragraph (1), and the provisions of paragraphs (11) through (13) of that Article apply mutatis mutandis if a financial instruments business operator, etc. approves a request under paragraph (4). In this case, in Article 34-3, paragraph (2), the phrase "the corporation making the request" is deemed to be replaced with "the applicant under paragraph (2) of the following Article"; in Article 34-3, paragraph (4), the phrase "the approval under paragraph (2)" is deemed to be replaced with "the delivery of a document and the confirmation under paragraph (2) of the following Article and the approval under paragraph (2)"; in Article 34-3, paragraph (7), the term "paragraph (1)" is deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (1) of the following Article"; in Article 34-3, paragraph (11), the phrase "the preceding paragraph" is deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (5) of the following Article" and the phrase "the corporation that submitted the request under paragraph (9)" is deemed to be replaced with "the individual that submitted the request under paragraph (4) of that Article"; in Article 34-3, paragraph (13), the term "paragraph (10)" is deemed to be replaced with "paragraph (5) of the following Article", the phrase "gives approval under paragraph (2)" is deemed to be replaced with "delivers the documents and makes the confirmation under the provisions of paragraph (2) of that Article, as well as giving approval under paragraph (2)", and the term "(9)" is deemed to be replaced with "(8) and paragraph (4) of the following Article"; and any other necessary technical replacement of terms is specified by Cabinet Order.